The Right Stuff ‘v’ the Right (Safe) Thing

The right stuff

Everyone seems to think they can tell the few good scientists from the mass of white-coated wannabes. We all have our own favourites, but generally speaking, people agree that a few scientists have got what it takes to make a Nobel laureate, while the majority just haven’t. Having what it takes doesn’t necessarily correlate with success. Another popular absolute is that some successful people a...

Nanofibers have the right stuff

ell migration depends on polarized actin polymerization at a cell's front edge. To get the most out of these actin networks, plasma membrane flexibility must be similarly polarized, according to results from Amit Vasanji, Paul Fox (Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH), and colleagues. The group shows that the membrane is stiffest at the front of migrating endothelial cells. This oriented...

Doing the Right Thing

Lean Engineering: Doing the Right Thing Right

Lean techniques are having a major impact on aerospace manufacturing. However, the cost and value of aerospace (and many other) products is determined primarily in product development. Migrating lean to engineering processes is ongoing in the industry, and a subject of study at the MIT Lean Aerospace Initiative. This paper summarizes findings to date, with references to both research literature...

Doing the right thing.

In this paper we examine a phenomenon which has proved difficult to account for using standard assumptions of current syntactic theory, namely extraposition. Starting with Rosenbaum (1967), all analyses we are aware of (with the exception of Emonds (1976)) treat extraposition as adjunction of a phrase to some right peripheral projection of a matrix sentence. This adjunction may either be analyz...